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Case sensitive and ludicrous statements

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Tue Dec 9 14:33:26 EST 2003 
In article <br4nmp$4gd$1 at news.wrc.xerox.com>,
mjackson at alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Jackson) wrote:
>And I see by the Smalltalk-80 book I have here that Smalltalk makes use
>of the left arrow as well.
>
>This all suggests that the "standard PARC character set" lacked the
>underscore.  (As far as I can tell the only other variation from
>standard ASCII was the replacement of the carat "^" with an up-arrow.)
>I wonder how far back that goes - the Nova-based POLOS system?  MAXC?

   As far back as the Teletype 33, if I recall correctly.
Actually the up-arrow and left-arrow glyphs were replaced by
'^' and '_'.

        Regards.        Mel.
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